A Conference with a Theist: Containing an Answer to All the Most Usual Objections of the Infidels Against the Christian Religion : in Five Parts, Volume 1 |
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... muft needs tell you , nothing lies fo hard upon my Stomach , as a Miracle , or a Revelation . My Nurfe was a Popifh Irish Woman , and fhe told me fuch strange Stories of the Patricks , the Brid- gets , and the Urfula's , that I took ...
... muft needs tell you , nothing lies fo hard upon my Stomach , as a Miracle , or a Revelation . My Nurfe was a Popifh Irish Woman , and fhe told me fuch strange Stories of the Patricks , the Brid- gets , and the Urfula's , that I took ...
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... muft needs fufpend my Faith ' till I can fee them anfwer- ed . Nor are these my Objections only levelled against a word or two in the Bible , or fome few feeming Con- tradictions , which may perhaps be accounted for by dif ferent ...
... muft needs fufpend my Faith ' till I can fee them anfwer- ed . Nor are these my Objections only levelled against a word or two in the Bible , or fome few feeming Con- tradictions , which may perhaps be accounted for by dif ferent ...
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... muft grow from worse to better , from its infirm Eftate to its an or Vigour , and fo decline to its old Age and Diffolu- tion . But we find that the World always was as it is now ; there has never been the leaft Decay in it , nor the ...
... muft grow from worse to better , from its infirm Eftate to its an or Vigour , and fo decline to its old Age and Diffolu- tion . But we find that the World always was as it is now ; there has never been the leaft Decay in it , nor the ...
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... muft act fuch a Way , becaufe Nature fo requires it , that otherways it would not be a natural Way of acting , and the like ; as if God was not the God of Nature , as well as of every Thing elfe ; or that the Power of God muft be ...
... muft act fuch a Way , becaufe Nature fo requires it , that otherways it would not be a natural Way of acting , and the like ; as if God was not the God of Nature , as well as of every Thing elfe ; or that the Power of God muft be ...
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... muft upon this Score be afferted , that fomething muft create it felf , which of all Contradictions is the most ab- furd . Does not this Objection pinch a little ? Cred . And a very little too ; for indeed it is nothing Anfw . të elfe ...
... muft upon this Score be afferted , that fomething muft create it felf , which of all Contradictions is the most ab- furd . Does not this Objection pinch a little ? Cred . And a very little too ; for indeed it is nothing Anfw . të elfe ...
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Page 336 - In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Page 335 - But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
Page 389 - Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold ; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter : and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
Page 271 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth ; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Page 368 - There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
Page 362 - For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground : he hath no form nor comeliness ; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Page 223 - After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus? And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
Page 317 - To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto Me ? saith the LORD : I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts ; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
Page 281 - The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil ; my lust shall be satisfied upon them ; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them : they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
Page 363 - And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David ; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also...